Awards and Recognitions

• 1999 Montreal, Finalist as President of Cifra Medical at the Mercuriades Awards of the Chamber of Commerce of Quebec in the category of New Technology Development.

• 1999 Montreal, Recognize as one of the ten most promising Entrepreneur in the province of Quebec by the prestigious magazine “Commerce”.

• 1998 Toronto, Laureate of the National IWAY Awards in the category of New Technology Development.

• 1997 Quebec City, Laureate of the Entrepreneur of the Month in Quebec City awarded by the “Magazine Economique”.

Keynote Speeches

• 2003 Rabbat (Moroco), keynote speaker at the United Nations (UN) Office for Outer Space Affairs International Meeting on “Space Technologies and Telemedicine”.

• 2002 Vancouver, keynote speaker at the Canadian Society for Telehealth (CST) Annual Meeting.

• 2002 Cairo (Egypt), invited speaker at a private presentation made to Minister of Health of Egypt.

• 2001 Berlin (Germany), invited speaker and official member of the Canadian delegation at the opening Ceremony of the Year 200 Universal Exposition held Germany.

• 2001 Toronto, keynote speaker at the Canadian Society for Telehealth (CST) Annual Meeting.

• 2000 Calgary, keynote speaker at the Canadian Society for Telehealth (CST) Annual Meeting.

• 1999 Fredericton, keynote speaker at the first Canadian Society for Telehealth (CST) Annual Meeting.

• 1999 Montreal, keynote speaker at the “Technology Meetings” of the Chamber of Commerce of Montreal.

• 1999 Montreal, keynote speaker at the International Institute of Research (IIR) Conference on “R&D and Innovation Management“.

• 1999 Montreal, keynote speaker at the annual general meeting of Nordex Fibronics, a former subsidiary of Nortel.

• 1999 Toronto, keynote speaker at the International Institute of Research (IIR) Conference on “Telehealth Marketing“.

• 1998 San Pedro de la Sula (Honduras), Invited speaker at the Inter-American Telemedicine Conference.

• 1998 Montreal, keynote speaker at the 5th International Conference of the International Society for Telemedicine (ISFT).

• 1998 Toronto, keynote speaker at the University of Toronto (UofT) Conference on Telemedicine.

• 1998 Quebec City, keynote speaker at the “Business Luncheon” of the Chamber of Commerce of Sainte-Foy.

• 1995 Dijon (France), invited speaker at the “European Society for Telehealth” conference.

• Scientific Communications

• 1987 Chalk River, International meeting on Nuclear Physics.

• 1987 Fredericton, CAP - Canadian Association of Physicist Annual Meeting.

• 1986 Montreal, CAP - Canadian Association of Physicist Annual Meeting.

• 1985 Hamilton, CAP - Canadian Association of Physicist Annual Meeting.

• 1984 Chicoutimi, ACFAS - Association Canadienne Française Pour l’avancement des Sciences.

Events Organization

• 2001 Nonnweiler-Otzenhausen (Germany), Co-Chair of the Canadian-German Health Telematics Partnership Workshop on e-Homecare organized in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBMT).

• 2000 Montreal, Member of the International Program Committee at the 5th International Conference of the ISFT (International Society for Telemedicine).

• 1998 Quebec City, President of the Organizing Committee of the 2nd Telehealth in Canada meeting.

• 1997 Quebec City, President of the Organizing Committee of the 1st Telehealth in Canada meeting: “Clinical Networking, Eliminating Distances”.